Jared Diamond refers to the people of New Guinea as “among the world’s most culturally diverse and adaptable people in the world”, yet they have much less “cargo” modern Americans.
Diamond has developed a theory about what has caused these huge discrepancies among
different countries, and he says it boils down to geographic luck. Give several examples from
the film to support Diamond’s theory. (two paragraphs—one describing “lucky” and “unlucky” examples, and a second explaining how those examples fit with Diamond’s theory.)

Accumulating more land so that your country can continue expanding without running into problems such as overpopulation

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t

Currently, as of february 2016, an american traveling in france would be by the exchange rate. the weakness of the euro and the strength of the us dollar means that items in france cost less to an american than they otherwise would. of course, if this trend reverses and the us dollar weakens and the euro strengthens, such as was happening in early 2008, an american traveling in france would have an adverse experience because items would cost relatively more.